Campus session 3 (25th March)

The main theme of the session was 'Knowledge'. Paula led the session we started by discussing the different themes we've looked at in the other campus sessions these were;

• Searching
• Theorising
• Love

We looked at different points of view on knowledge e.g. constructivism, philosophy, Dewey. Looking at different points of view enables you to add knowledge on to what you already know.

We discussed about what is 'Knowledge'? Paula described 'Knowledge' is situated in individual contexts. We then went on to think about who has knowledge? Where can we find knowledge?

As an activity we drew a 'Body of Knowledge' and filled it in with what we considered as our knowledge.

This is my diagram:

Alan said;  "We construct our own knowledge" This led us on to discuss how having knowledge will help us with our inquiry process:

What do you want to know?

• Find knowledge
• Explaining and reporting
• Using knowledge to inform practice.

Your knowledge is constantly changing, knowledge and understanding is informed by your context.

Paula showed a quote from Mezirow (1991);

"Learning is to bring about change and transformation."

 

Paula explained how we use Knowledge within the BAPP course. We looked at tools such as social science inquiry tools e.g. framework within context. Paula explained the 'Knowledge' is trans-disciplinarily it has different areas. Paula showed two quotes;

 

"Knowledge is narrative and per formative, only true to the time being."

Lyotard (1984)

 

"Treated knowledge as discourse ideological discourse of the powerful"

Foucault (1972)

 

We talked about the arguments for knowledge, and helped us think about what kind of knowledge and understanding are you gaining? What else have you learned?

 

Below is the process we take when planning an inquiry:

 

1. Networking- Reflection

 

2. Planning- Rehearsal

 

3. Doing the Inquiry- Staging your work

 

Second part of the lecture we had a discussion with Alan about any aspects of the modules we were worried about. We discussed ethical issues of peoples inquiries and looked at how we plan our inquiry, an example of this is;

• Set Aim
• Title
• Explore/Objectives
• How you're going to analyse?/ what method?
• Ethics/ actions perceptions.

Alan has wrote a post about 'Ethics' if anyone wants some ideas on how ethics link to their research inquiry.